"Better Water Reactors"

This week, we talk Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) with James
Krellenstein, the CEO of Alva Energy. We dive into the
engineering, history, and physics of these reactors, how they
differ from other designs, and why the United States may have
erred in not choosing the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR)
instead of the Westinghouse AP-1000 for the Vogtle nuclear power
plant.For this episode, we’ve included a glossary below to help
with unfamiliar terms:



ABWR: Advanced Boiling Water Reactor




ATWS: Anticipated Transient Without Scram




BORAX experiments: Historical experiments
testing reactor limits through deliberate failures




BWR: Boiling Water Reactor




COPS: Containment Overpressure Protection
System




CRDM: Control Rod Drive Mechanism




ESBWR: Economic Simplified Boiling Water
Reactor




FLEX: Diverse and Flexible Coping Strategies
(post-Fukushima enhancements)




FOAK: First of a kind




IGSCC: Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking




NOAK: N-nth of a kind




NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission




NSSS: Nuclear Steam Supply System (N Triple-S)




PRA: Probabilistic Risk Assessment




PWR: Pressurized Water Reactor




RCIC: Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System




RPV: Reactor Pressure Vessel





SLC: Standby Liquid Control System




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